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Definition of Fatuities
1. fatuity [n] - See also: fatuity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatuities
Literary usage of Fatuities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn Route by William Hadfield (1854)
"Memento Mori, with admonitions to the Living.—Portuguese peculiarities. —Personal
and political economy.—Fiscal fatuities.—Market-place nota- bilia. ..."
2. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by Herbert George Wells (1897)
"... women and children, — all of them saying fatuities: "Wouldn't let en bite me,
I knows; " " ' Tas n't right have such dargs;" " Whad 'e bite'n for then? ..."
3. Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1885)
"... that whereas wine disorders the mental fatuities, opium, on the contrary, if
taken in a proper manner, introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, ..."
4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1813)
"I answer, We should always remember what I said above, that the fatuities of our
souls are improved and made useful to us, just after the same manner as our ..."
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